Research

Research at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (ACI) concentrates on Investigation of molecular compounds on the basis of main- and subgroup elements and the detailed elaboration of structure-property relationships.
These fundamental insights provide the basis for the development of sustainable catalysts and materials and for the realization of new technologies.

The research foci at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (OCI) are in the fields of molecular chemistry (method development; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; catalysis), supramolecular chemistry (functional miniproteins; functional cage structures; carbon-based acceptor molecules) and on macromolecular chemistry (2D, 3D and 4D materials; functional materials; peptide materials).

The main research areas of the Institute of Physical Chemistry (PCI) include dynamic processes in functional materials, charge transport and light-matter interaction, theoretical chemistry & molecular quantum dynamics, molecular processes at interfaces, biophysical chemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy as well as radiochemistry.

At the Institute of Geography research is conducted in the fields of physical geography and human geography. The main topics are
geomorphology and soil geography, geoinformatics and 3D geodata processing, hydrogeography and climatology, geography of South Asia and geography of North America as well as economic and social geography.

The research at the Institute of Earth Sciences focuses on the fields of solid earth (including mineralogy, petrology, isotope geology and sedimentology), cosmochemistry, environmental geochemistry, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate research, palaeontology and archaeometry.

The research network with 17 sub-projects focuses on the development of new organic semiconductors and the investigation of the elementary processes of charge transport that determine their properties.

The research training group funded jointly with the University of Stuttgart includes research groups from the fields of chemistry, physics and engineering. It is investigating how ions and electrons interact with each other in organic, hybrid and nanostructured materials and how these interactions can be utilised for new functionalities, for example in bioelectronics.